Our Story:
My wife and I rode out the storm at our house in Baytown, along with my wife's 93 year old grandmother, who came to stay with us because they evacuated her assisted-living facility. I had boarded up all of the windows, so I was mostly just concerned about losing shingles off the roof. The wind blew, it rained, the lights went out, but we slept through the first half of the storm. When the eye passed over, the silence woke me up!. We went out during the eye to an eerie, dark silence to assess the damage. Later, the wind returned out of the other direction for about 2 hours. In all, we only lost about a dozen shingles over the carport and lost one fence post and a few pickets. Our lights were back on the next day (Sunday), after being off for about 40 hours -- we didn't even lose the meat in the freezer!
My Grandmother-in-law was able to return to the assisted living home after about 8 days, but the stress of the storm and the move at her age was eventually too much for her. She basically quit eating and became bedridden and went downhill until she passed away on December 22nd. I guess you could say she was another victim of Ike.
The cache:
This cache has been placed at a spot that demonstrates the powereful storm surge of Hurricane Ike in the Baytown area. There's nothing particularly difficult about this cache, unless another hurricane comes along and washes it away. You are looking for a soda tube hanging in a yaupon tree.
The cache is hanging at about the same level as the highest storm surge during Hurricane Ike. If you were standing in this same spot in the early hours of September 13th, 2008, your head would most likely have been under water. Yours, though probably not mine... 
Watch for muggles and have fun!
Congratulations to bbqbob2 for being FTF!